Associate Professor Maksim Petrovich Zapletin (born 29.01.1966 in Alma-Ata) works at the GPC department since 1993. He is a student of Konstantin Georgiyevich Grigoryev. Scientific interests of Zapletin are connected with numerical methods of solving problems of optimal control and rocket dynamics. He has got about 20 publications, leads a special seminar. In 1994-1999 Zapletin was a scientific secretary of the GPC department.